{"id":11,"date":"2014-06-27T20:57:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T20:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/130.113.68.172\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:56:26","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/datasci.cas.mcmaster.ca\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Jongjun presents his demonstration on anomaly detection in time series with drift at CIKM 2025 in Seoul, South Korea.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1182\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cikm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"271\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1183\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cikm4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"271\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1185\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cikm2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"271\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Zikai attends PAKDD 2025 in Sydney to present his work on leveraging features across two-hop, vertical federated learning systems, and is presented with a student travel award at the banquet.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1171\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD1-300x139.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD1-300x139.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD1-1024x473.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD1-768x355.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD1-1536x709.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD1-2048x946.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1172\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PAKDD2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>One of our group members, PhD student Jongjun Park, will be featured across campus.\u00a0 Kudos to Jongjun!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dDI0Fai8uNpuu7tpg2OC8NCtiw11NLlO\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1162 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-15-at-5.48.09\u202fPM-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-15-at-5.48.09\u202fPM-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-15-at-5.48.09\u202fPM-680x1024.png 680w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-15-at-5.48.09\u202fPM-768x1156.png 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-15-at-5.48.09\u202fPM-1020x1536.png 1020w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-15-at-5.48.09\u202fPM-1361x2048.png 1361w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-15-at-5.48.09\u202fPM.png 1516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dec 2024: Jongjun and Nishttha present their work at Ontario Database Day at the University of Waterloo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1137\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4684-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4684-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4684-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4684-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4684-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4684-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1138\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4687-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4687-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4687-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4687-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4687-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4687-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Aug 2024: Jongjun presents our work at the Quality in Databases (QDB) workshop held at VLDB 2024 in Guangzhou, China<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1124\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/JongjunQDB-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/JongjunQDB-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/JongjunQDB-1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>July 2022: Congratulations to Morteza on successfully defending his PhD!<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1086\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/MortezaPhDDefense-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"MortezaPhD\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/MortezaPhDDefense-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/MortezaPhDDefense-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/MortezaPhDDefense-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/MortezaPhDDefense-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/MortezaPhDDefense-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>June 2022: Congratulations to Zheng on finishing his PhD.<\/li>\n<li>June 2022: Congrats to Morteza on his key mining work being accepted to DaWaK 2022 in Vienna.<\/li>\n<li>May 2022: Farewell lunch to Zheng for completing his PhD.\u00a0 Congratulations!\u00a0 Welcome to Hossein and Akanksha.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1062\" src=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/May3_groupLunch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/May3_groupLunch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/May3_groupLunch-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/May3_groupLunch-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/May3_groupLunch-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/May3_groupLunch-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>April 2022: Prof. Chiang to join the Google Cloud Research Innovators program.<\/li>\n<li>Mar 2022: Our work on contextual data cleaning with OFDs is accepted to ACM JDIQ 22.<\/li>\n<li>Dec 2021: Our joint work on replica currency estimation is accepted to SIGMOD &#8217;22.<\/li>\n<li>Nov 2021: Our work on diversity in data anonymization is accepted to TKDE.<\/li>\n<li>Aug 2021: Our work on discovering temporal graph dependencies is accepted at CIKM&#8217;21.<\/li>\n<li>June 2021: Congratulations to Adam for completing his M.Eng!<\/li>\n<li>Dec 2020: Congratulations to Shervin for completing his M.Sc!<\/li>\n<li>Nov 2020: Our work on preserving diversity in anonymized data is accepted at EDBT&#8217;21.<\/li>\n<li>July 2020: Our PACAS paper on Privacy-Aware Data Cleaning-as-a-Service is accepted into the Information Systems journal.<\/li>\n<li>May 2020: Prof. Chiang is a co-PI in newly awarded NSERC CREATE grant on &#8220;Smart Mobility for the Aging Population&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Dec 2019: Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2020!<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Sept 2019: Data Science Lab promotes data quality and STEM to camp students this summer.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you to Levin, Shervin and Morteza!<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-794\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/thankyou-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/thankyou-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/thankyou-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/thankyou-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Aug 2019: Our CurrentClean system demo paper is accepted to CIKM19.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Aug 2019: Thanks to Levin and Shervin for leading (superhero) workshops to summer camp students to learn about data quality and data analysis.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-781\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5937-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5937-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5937-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5937-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">May 2019: Our work on defining Ontological Graph Keys and its use in entity matching over graphs is accepted to VLDB19.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">April 2019: Congratulations to Tri, Shawn, and Zheng for 1st prize in the Dept. of Computing and Software's demo competition!<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Feb 2019: Our work on \"CurrentClean: Spatio-temporal Cleaning of Stale Data\" is accepted to ICDE19.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Dec 2018:\u00a0Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2019!\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-709\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/holiday19a-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/holiday19a-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/holiday19a-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Oct 2018: Our work on privacy-preserving data cleaning as a service is accepted into the IEEE Big Data Conference.\u00a0 Looking forward to presenting our work in Seattle!<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">July 2018: Our team building retreat visited Toronto where we went canoeing along the Humber River!<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-636\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lunch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lunch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lunch-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lunch-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-630\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/team3-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/team3-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/team3-768x777.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/team3-1012x1024.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-637\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scenic2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scenic2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scenic2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/scenic2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">June 2018: Prof. Chiang is awarded a 2018 Ontario Early Researcher Award!<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">June 2018: Prof. Chiang gives a talk on data privacy and data cleaning at Thomson Reuters in Toronto.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">June 2018: Congratulations to Yu who came in 1st at the CAS dept. 3-minute thesis competition!\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-600\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20180605135312-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20180605135312-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20180605135312-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20180605135312-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20180605135312.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">May 2018: Mostafa and Prof. Chiang co-present a data quality tutorial at AMW 2018 in Cali, Colombia.\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-592\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AMW_Chiang-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AMW_Chiang-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AMW_Chiang-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AMW_Chiang-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">April 2018: Ending the term with a delicious group potluck lunch!\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-584\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/potluck-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/potluck-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/potluck-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/potluck-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">April 2018: Congratulations to Yu who came in 3rd at the CAS dept. research poster showcase!<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Mar 2018:\u00a0Our collaboration with IBM is\u00a0awarded OCE VIP1 and TalentEdge funding for <em>Ontology-Driven Semantic Disambiguation.\u00a0 <\/em>Grateful to IBM and OCE's support of our work.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Mar 2018: Prof. Chiang and Prof. Zheng are awarded an NSERC CRD for their project <em>A Data-Driven Platform for Multimodal Positioning and Tracking in Indoor Environments.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Feb 2018:\u00a0Our collaborative project with VerticalScope on <em>Contextual Named Entity Linking<\/em> is awarded an NSERC Engage grant.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Feb 2018: Our paper on protecting sensitive information in data cleaning is accepted in the ACM J. of Data and Information Quality.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Jan 2018: Our work on discovering, and data cleaning with OFDs is accepted as a demo paper at EDBT 2018.\u00a0 \u00a0Looking forward to presenting the demo in Vienna!<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Dec 2017: Happy holidays and best wishes for 2018!<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-509\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/holiday2017-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/holiday2017-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/holiday2017-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/holiday2017-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Nov 2017: Congratulations to Yu who came in 2nd place at the McMaster.AI graduate student poster competition for his poster \"Quantifying Duplicates with Semantic Disambiguation\".<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Nov 2017: Prof. Chiang co-organizer and co-host of <a href=\"http:\/\/macai.mcmaster.ca\/\">McMaster.AI <\/a>workshop at McMaster Innovation Park.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Aug 2017: Zheng Zheng is selected for an international excellence scholarship award. Congratulations Zheng!<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">May 2017: Prof. Chiang is a featured speaker at the SOSCIP Impact Conference 2017 held at MaRs, Toronto.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-323\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSC_5093002-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-324\" src=\"db.cas.mcmaster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSC_5094001-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Dec 2016: Our project with IBM Watson Analytics is featured in the SOSCIP December <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soscip.org\/mcmaster-researcher-to-clean-big-data\/?utm_source=SOSCIP+Platforms+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=65139c4a4a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_92f3dac6c4-65139c4a4a-3578363\">newsletter<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">June 2016: Prof. Chiang is awarded funding from the <a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1982d1;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oce-ontario.org\/programs\/industry-academic-collaboration\/collaboration-voucher-program\/VIA\/smart-computing-r-d-challenge\">OCE\/NSERC CRD Smart Computing R&amp;D Challenge Program<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Nov 2015: See Data Science Lab members in McMaster News <a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1982d1;\" href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.mcmaster.ca\/article\/how-big-data-can-help-solve-big-problems\/\">video<\/a> and <a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1982d1;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.research.mcmaster.ca\/research-matters\/quality-counts\">article<\/a> .<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">June 2015: Prof. Chiang receives an IBM CAS Research Fellowship for <em>A Dynamic and Adaptable Data Cleaning System for Watson Analytics<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">June 2015: Yu Huang and incoming student Zheng Zheng receive McMaster International Excellence awards for 2015\/16.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Jan 2015: Prof. Chiang receives a CFI grant for <em>Infrastructure for Continuous, Privacy Preserving, Data Cleaning at the McMaster Data Science Lab<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Sept 2014: The Data Science Lab receives an NSERC Engage grant to work with OverAir Technologies on data design and data quality.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Aug 2014: Our demo paper is accepted into CIKM 2014.\nJ. Segeren, D. Gairola, F. Chiang. <em>CONDOR: A System for CONstraint DiscOvery and Repair<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">July 2014: Yu Huang is one of 5 students selected for an international excellence scholarship award. Congratulations Yu!<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">July 2014 :\u00a0Welcome new students Yu, Sridevi, Dejun, Adam, and Arvind, who are joining the group Fall 2014!<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">April 2014 : As co-investigator, Prof. Chiang, receives CFI funding with collaborators Abigail Payne and Magdelena Janus. \u00a0More details\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1982d1;\" href=\"http:\/\/research.mcmaster.ca\/news\/funding-to-fight-alzheimers-build-stronger-steel-increase-literacy-and-more\/\">here.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jongjun presents his demonstration on anomaly detection in time series with drift at CIKM 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. 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